Sunday, September 25, 2016

I use Livestreamer to download my own VOD files when I dun goofed and break my local recordings. This used to work perfectly, but as I write this, the software is broken due to an update in the Twitch API that enforces authentication.

error: Unable to open URL:

https://api.twitch.tv/api/channels/havejoystick/access_token.json

(400 Client Error: Bad Request)

There is a workaround, however; you can hand over a client specific token. Right now, this is the one used by Twitch's web player: